<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Join Chris Smith, the founder of the open source </span><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.codeworld.info/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">CodeWorld</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> environment, in discussing how middle school students learn mathematics through programming and design.</span> <div>

<br></div><div><h1 id="toc0" style="padding:5px 0px 0px;margin:0px;font-size:1.4em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">LOGIN: <strong><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');padding-right:10px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></strong></h1>

<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All events in the Math Future weekly series: </span><a class="wiki_link" href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The recording will be at: </span><a class="wiki_link" href="https://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/CodeWorld" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/CodeWorld</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Your time zone: </span><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://bit.ly/KxMSLk" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">http://bit.ly/KxMSLk</a> </div>

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<li>Follow this link at the time of the event: <strong><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');padding-right:10px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></strong></li>

<li>Wednesday, May 23rd 2012 we will meet online at 8pm Eastern time.</li><li>Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Session Log-In, enter your name and click the "Login" button</li>

<li>If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check out the technology.</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h2 id="toc2" style="padding:5px 0px 0px;margin:0px;font-size:1.3em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<a name="LOGIN: http:tinyurl.com/math20event-About CodeWorld: open source programming and math education"></a>About CodeWorld: open source programming and math education</h2><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.codeworld.info/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">CodeWorld</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is a program to introduce children to computer programming. It is based on open source programming tools and languages. Middle school students create their own pictures, animations, and ultimately design and implement their own video games, using basic algebra and geometry along the way.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<a href="http://www.codeworld.info/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img src="https://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/CodeWorldFront.png/336004036/CodeWorldFront.png" alt="CodeWorldFront.png" title="CodeWorldFront.png" style="border: 0px; padding: 4px; "></a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The program combines an interactive web-based development environment with an easy to use graphics library. The program makes it easy to build new creative content in the very first hour. CodeWorld has been taught as a trial class for the past school year. The presentation will cover experiences with the open source tools and the class itself.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">

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<a name="LOGIN: http:tinyurl.com/math20event-Chris Smith"></a>Chris Smith</h2><img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/ChrisSmith.jpg/335992822/200x200/ChrisSmith.jpg" alt="ChrisSmith.jpg" title="ChrisSmith.jpg" align="left" style="border: 0px; padding: 4px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 200px; width: 200px; "><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chris Smith is the Director of Learning Technology at Brindle Waye, Ltd. He has been programming for fun since 1984 (age 5), and professionally since 1997. He is passionate about both programming languages and open source software. Chris maintains and contributes to numerous projects, including the Snap web application framework. Chris developed the CodeWorld program and its the web-based programming environment, and taught it during the 2011-2012 school year.</span> <br clear="all">

Cheers,<br>Maria Droujkova<br>919-388-1721<br><br>Make math your own, to make your own math<br><br> <br>
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